Hi Neil.

24-Mar-03 13:59:04, Neil Heller wrote to Jasen Betts

 NH> It just dawned on me (after reading Mr. McBrine's post) that if
 NH> one were to use only decimal numerics and English alphas
 NH> converting from ASCII to EBCIDIC or vice versa would be really
 NH> quick (as in table driven, no decisions).

yeah,  something like

  *(char_pointeer++) = "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"[digit]

would compile and work fine on both EBCDIC and ASCII/UTF systems.
also it could possibly be extended for base64 encoding etc...

 -=> Bye <=-

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